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1963-09-24CLAIMS AGAINST THE COUNTY AMOUNTING TO $442,493.17 WERE PRESENTEDs EXAMINED AND ALLOWEDs AND CERTIFIED TO THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE FOR PAYMENT AND CHARGED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING FUNDS: GENERAL OPERATING FUND SCHOOL OPERATING FUND DOG TAX FUND CROZET SANITARY DISTRICT FUND V~RGIN1A PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FUND CENTRAL FIRE DISTRICT FUND COMMONWEALTH OF VA. CURRENT CREDIT ACCOUNT TOTAL $ 46,190.24 249,320.17 548.10 12,078.65 22,703.38 6.OO 111,646~63 $442,493.17 ON MOTION, THE MEETING ADdOURNED. ACTING 'GILA ! RMA'" SEPTEMBER 24s 1963 PURSUANT TO THE FOLLOWING WAIVERs MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTYs VIRGINIAs MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT 7=30 P.M. ON THIS DATE, CHARLOTTESVILLEs VIRGINIA WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MESSRS. WILLIAMS, GARNETTs HARRIS AND PALMER. ABSENT= MESSRS. SUTHERLAND AND THRAVES. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD'OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTYs VIRGINIAs ]30 HEREBY WAIVE NOTICE, AND SPECIAL SERVICE THEREOF, OF A MEETING TO BE HELD AT 7:30 P.M. ON THE 24TH DAY OF SEPTEMBERs 1963, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE WATER SUPPLV OF THE CROZET SANITARY DISTRICTs AND WE DO -HEREBY CONSENT TO ANY AND ALL BUSINESS AND THE TAKING OF SUCH ACTION AT SAID MEETING UPON THE MATTER HEREINABOVE MENTIONED AS MAY ~ WFU~ INCIDENT AND NECESSARY THERETO. ROBERT THRAVE8 THE CHAIRMAN EXPLAINED THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING AND DEALT VERY BRIEFLY WITH MATTERS RELATIN~ TO WATER CONDITIONS IN THE CROZET SANITARY DISTRICT. HE CALLED UPON MR. JACK APPERSONs CHAIRMAN OF THE CROZET WATER COMMITTEEs FOR A REPORT AND POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THAT ORGANIZATION. ~R. APPERSON CITE~ THE PRESENT CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO WATER SHORTAGE WITHIN THE SANITARY DISTRICT. HE STATED THAT AT A dOINT MEETING OF THE WATER COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LIONS CLUB OF CROZETs CERTAIN POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES HAD BEEN DESIGNATED IN ORDER TO PREVENT FURTHER SHORTAGES OF WATER IN CASE OF (1) INCREASE PRESENT STORAGE FACILITIES.. (2) MRo RAY WARRICKIS WELL ON A PERMANENT BASIS.. (~) PURCHASE OF HENLEYtS LAKE. MRo APPERSON ASKED, HOWEVER, FOR ANY INFORMATION POSSIBLE AS TO THE COST OF ANY OF THE ABOVE. HE STATED THAT THE TWO ABOVE GROUPS ARE OF THE OPINION THAT A STUDY SHOULD BE MADE BY A COMMITTEE CON- SISTING OF FOUR FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES= (1) BOARD OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS. (~) LIONS CLUB OF CROZET. {3) CERTAIN CROZET CITIZENS. MR. DONALD WALLACE OF THE 91VISION OF WATER AND MINERAL RESOURCES, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, STATED THAT AROUND 19~6--~?, HE HAD MADE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO SOURCES OF WATER FOR THE CROZET SANITARY DISTRICT. SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS WERE PRIOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT FILTER PLANT AND OTHER FACILITIES. HE STATED THAT HIS RECOMMENDATIONS HAD BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE ENGINEER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FILTER PLANT WHO HAD IN TURN MADE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT MR. WALLACE~S STUDIES BE FOLLOWED. MR. ~ALLACE STATED, HOWEVER, THAT NONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE FOLLOWED. MRS. WALLACE EMPHASIZED THE CONTINUING NEED FOR WATER IN ALL LOCALITIES AND STATED THAT BEAVER CREEK, AS WELL AS OTHER SOURCES, SHOULD BE DEVELOPE~ AND THAT THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF DEVELOPMENT MUST BE FOR WATER AND NOT TO INCLUDE OTHER FACILITIES SUCH AS RECREATION. ~R. ~ILLIAM C. OVERMAN, ENGINEER CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY THE COUNTY~ COMMENTED ON SEVERAL PHASES OF HIS STUDY dUST BEING INAUGURATED. HE STATED THAT APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY PER CENT CE THE ONE HUNDRED TEl MILLION GALLONS OF WATER IN HENLEY'S LAKE WAS USABLE. ~ITH RESPECT TO MR. ~ARRICK~S WELL~ MR. OVERMAN ADVISED THAT SUCH PERMANENT CONNECTION WOULD BE EXPENSIVE AND WOULD NOT ALLOW FOR ANY RESERVE STORAGE. WITH REGARD TO BEAVER CREEK~ MR. OVERMAN STATED THAT THIS PROdECT WOULD HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF STORAGE NEXT YEAR AND COULD BE USED ON A TEMPORARY BASIS BY MEANS OF PORTABLE FILTERS AT A MUCH LESSER COST THAN IS BEING ENCOUNTERED THIS YEAR. SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE SPOEE~ INCLUDING MR. WALTER YOUNG AND MR. ~iLLIAM HENLEY. MR. NORMAN GILLUM REQUESTED THAT THE CHAIRMAN FORMULATE A COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF TWO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNT' SUPERVISORS~ THREE FROM THE CROZET WATER COMMITTEE AND TWO FROM THE LIONS CLUB OF CROZET. IT WAS RE- qUESTED BY MR. ALAN ROSENKRANS THAT ~Ro GILLUM~S REQUEST BE AMENDED TO INCLUDE ONE MEMBER FROM ACME VISIBLE RECORDS~ INC. AND ONE MEMBER FROM ~ORTON FROZEN FOODS COMPANY. MR. OAMES SANDRtDGE SUGGESTED THAT THE COMMITTEE NOT BE RESTRICTED CONCERNING MATTERS OF WATER AND THAT THE NAME OF SUCH GROUP BY CHANGED TO THE CROZET SANITARY DISTRICT COMMITTEE IN ORDER THAT STUDIES COULD BE MADE ALONG OTHER LINES. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD SUGGESTED THAT THE CROZET SANITARY DISTRICT COMMITTEE BE ERECTED BY BALLOT. A SHOW OF HANDS OF THOSE PRESENT INDICATED APPROVAL OF THiS SUGGESTION. THE COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY ADVISED THAT SUCH ELECTION WOULD BE MERELY ADVISORY AND THAT HE WAS OF THE OPINION THAT THE MECHANICS OF ELECTION COULD BE PROVIDED IN ORDER THAT SUCH COMMITTEE COULD BE VOTED UPON AT THE GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. UPON MOTION, THE ~EETING A~dOURNED. / CH A t RMAN